Kurt Olsen, a lawyer for Ms Lake, said in a statement that they "respectfully disagree" with the court's decision to impose sanctions. He denied a request, however, for Ms Lake to pay the legal fees for Governor Hobbs and Mr Fontes. But once a contest enters the judicial arena, rules of attorney ethics apply," Chief Justice Robert Brutinel wrote in his ruling on Thursday. "Sometimes campaigns and their attendant hyperbole spill over into legal challenges. Governor Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who is also a Democrat, sought legal sanctions over the claims. She then challenged the decision to reject her case, with her lawyers saying it was an "undisputed fact" that "unaccounted for ballots" had appeared in the total. The court refused to hear the challenge in full, saying in March that there was no evidence ballots had been wrongly added to the final count. Ms Lake, who ultimately lost by a margin 17,000 votes, launched an unsuccessful legal challenge of her defeat.
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